The Crazy South

April 11, 2011

In all of the East Coast cities I’ve inhabited, going down south meant leaving for a kinder, gentler, please-and-thank-you region of the country. Not so, this go. This time, going south means leaving the friendly beach town (and my mother’s condo) I’ve been enjoying for three work-free months, and settling into the Miami area. Literally, the last place I expected to [...]

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Miracle of Miracles

April 10, 2011

After picking a lot of duds lately—books that start out extraordinary and fizzle midway—Miracles, Inc. was a heavenly find. It was facing outward on the store shelf, so maybe it’s about to hit big. I hope Hollywood never finds it, but either way, I’m a Forrester fan for life. Being sentimental as sandpaper, it’s hard to believe that I carved out a special hour in [...]

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Giant Community Journal

April 3, 2011

A few people have told me recently that they think Facebook is really stupid. OK. Lemme think for a moment. Well, I guess cars would be stupid if you drove them into buildings. And forks would be stupid if you stuck them in your eye. And, yes, I’m offended because I happen to like Facebook quite [...]

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I Beg Your Pardon?

March 21, 2011

My more intelligent friends have been mocking me for years over my lottery playing, what with their “statistics” and other crazy theories. Now the lottery itself is insulting me, every single time I fail to hit it big—or hit any numbers at all. Think this will stop me? Fat chance! Maybe it’s my penchant for [...]

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Beach Birds II (the verticles)

March 17, 2011
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Beach Birds

March 16, 2011

I’ve finally stopped looking upward (hoping to find something akin to Virginia’s 50-ft. canopy of trees) and started looking outward. That’s really all you can do in Florida, for miles and miles and miles. It takes getting used to—the exposure, the expanse, the lack of hiding places, as seen in this fisherman’s near-fatal run-in with [...]

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Come south, CF man friends!

March 11, 2011

(Ironic, that Homer Simpson calls Florida “America’s Wang.” A wang it may be, but its powers are clearly waning.)

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Not to be used as a flotation device

March 5, 2011

Although it would be handy with all of the pools, creeks, and puddles around central Florida.

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(U deserve it)

March 4, 2011

(for the bird scalding AND the poor grammar)

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Florida Flatlands

February 28, 2011

Getting used to the fact that three-hour road trips look pretty much the same, beginning to end.

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